they are using a couple different technologies including one that starts with photos from a still camera. you take photos from different angles and an amazing software puts them together. >> it can analyze two dimensional pictures, and make a three dimensional model from an ordinary camera. >> they are icing laser scanners. a sophisticated software programmable analyzes the millions of data points and combines them. the image is so detailed it could create an exact replica of the space and everything in it. they are thrilled to get this data now. even though they are not sure how they going use it. >> what exactly we'll do that, that is what we do, we'll have fortunately years to figure that out. >> they are also sorting, cleaning and packing and puzzling over the 43 years of accumulated stuff behind the scenes of the museum. >> this one is a six-foot focal length lens. >> first they have to figure out what they have. next, they decide what makes the cut. >> whatever they do keep will come here to pier 15. after two years of top to bottom renovation, this will be the exploratorium's new